Product Description

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Starting Point is a conversational environment where you can explore faith and experience community. In preparation for each group meeting, there will be a chapter to read and a few questions to answer in this Conversation Guide. Each chapter contains five components: a narrative introduction, key scripture text, thought-provoking questions, additional resources, and the bottom line. There are 10 sessions. The 5 CDs included in this pack contain 10 audio messages you will listen to in preparation for the discussion meeting.

Publisher's Description

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Find Your Place in the Story Welcome to Starting Pointa journey of discovering the broad arch of Gods story and where you fit into the narrative. Whether you are new to the Christian faith, simply curious about it, or reexamining it after time away from church, youll appreciate the accepting, conversational, small group environment. Come as you are, be who you are, and build enriching connections with fellow travelers as you explore who God is and what Christianity is really about. Starting Point is a natural, enjoyable, and potentially life-changing experience. Each of the ten sessions consists of three important parts: First, selecting one of the five CDs that come with this Conversation Guide, youll listen to a teaching by Andy Stanley. Second, youll use this guidebook to help you reflect, and to journal your thoughts on how what youre discovering connects with your lifewith who you are, how you think, what you believe with the things that matter most to you. Finally, in your weekly group meeting, youll have the opportunity to share your thoughts and experiences with fellow travelers in a supportive environment that is designed to enhance sharing and connection. From Creation across history and into the futurefrom the book of Genesis to the book of RevelationGods story is a story of relationship, and your name is in it. Welcome to the journey of finding out how the story started where it ends and how Gods story and your story unite.

Author Bio

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Communicator, author, and pastor, Andy Stanley founded Atlanta-based North Point Ministries in 1995. Today, NPM is comprised of six churches in the Atlanta area, serving more than 36,000 people weekly, as well as a network of 30 churches around the globe. As host of NBCs Your Move with Andy Stanley, reaching over 36 million viewers in less than two years on the air, and author of 20-plus books including Ask It, How to Be Rich, Deep & Wide, Visioneering, and Next Generation Leader, he is considered one of the most influential living pastors in America. Andy Stanley and his wife, Sandra, have three grown children and live near Atlanta.

Starting Point is excellent for first timers, refreshers and those coming back to the Lord. Andy Stanley has a way of simplifying some of the most complicated subjects so that everyone gets it. Yet he never talks "down" to the audience. His sense of humor keeps people interested even through some of the weightiest of subjects. Each week you are left hungering for more. Eager to get together with your study group and share/discuss all that you have learned through the CD and workbook. I highly recommend this for anyone who is trying to figure out how they fit in the grand scheme of what's called "Life". Many "Wow, I never looked at it like that before!" moments for all in the group.

3 years ago my church began small groups, and to ensure everyone was on the same page we did Andy Stanley's "Starting Point". This small group study is a fantastic beginning for those new to the Christian faith , but also serves well to redirect or refocus those who have been in the faith for some time. This study does a good job in helping people examine what it is they believe and how it is they got there. I highly recommend "Starting Point" to anyone that is looking to begin a small group, or even as a curriculum to use for "Newbies". We are now doing a second round of this study because we have added many new faces to our men's group, and Andy Stanley does a great job inviting you in without overwhelming you.